ABRAHAM

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The ABRAHAM Project is the most famous tech company in the world. Why wouldn't it be? After all the trillion-dollar startup was founded for one purpose: to allow humans to connect their minds to a limitless virtual universe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Arthur Hesper joins </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ABRAHAM</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> as its youngest executive he is tasked with designing an artificial intelligence capable of maintaining the virtual world - a job that proves far more intense than he had expected. But then again when Arthur was hired by the company </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>even after</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> his disastrous interview he wasn't sure </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>what</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to expect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He didn't expect to be syncing his nervous system to the company's supercomputer on his very first day of work.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He didn't expect Sarah Stellos the enigmatic and laser-focused CEO of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ABRAHAM</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to have a soft spot for vanilla ice cream - or for that matter to go out on a date with him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And he </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>definitely</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> didn't expect ALI the mind-reading program that he created to run the virtual world to get distracted by an apple tree sapling.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Truthfully there was </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a lot </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that Arthur didn't expect before he joined </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ABRAHAM.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> He probably shouldn't have been so surprised then to learn that a tiny flaw in the company's system had the power to wipe out all life on Earth.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ABRAHAM </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is a science-fiction story that probes the persistence of reality faith and humanity against the backdrop of digital ubiquity. Ultimately the novel tackles the question: </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is the perfect world somewhere that you can just escape to?</em></p><p></p>